Kat Rücker-Weininger
"I look at the world and the animals and want to paint them. As they are? No, the way I see them."
Kat Rücker-Weininger was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After a turbulent childhood and youth in an artist household with many animals, she studied graphic design in Munich following her apprenticeship as a handicraft bookbinder and a one-year internship with a designer bookbinder in London.
In addition to her work as an art director and illustrator for advertising agencies and publishers, she writes short stories and children's books and works as a portrait painter. Her paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries, museums and other exhibitions all over Europe, e.g. in the Haus der Kunst and the German hunting and fishing museum in Munich, in the Marbach horse museum, in the Swiss horse museum in La Sarraz, at the IO stand at the Children's Bookfair in Bologna and the Glaspalast (former State Gallery of Modern Art) in Augsburg.
